The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-07-02
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Tie that hath gaiEed friend hath
given hostage 70 fortune.
believe lie first teat ii 1 truly
CREST man is his humility.
Ala effost made for The happiness Of
others lifta rs above ourselves.
No uaihspiFed book knowledge is
30 iniportant ri Relf knowledge.
he Who is too much afraid Of being
dipped, hss lost the power Of being
naguaninous.
We are an learners. a man who Is
too old TO isarn is too old 10 live and
not tit to die.
The Church ii God viii never be .
triumphant church aatil It becomes
singing church.
The narrowest Of al narrow things
is narrow sonl, even If the intellect
be 81 giant size.
The more We love The laws Of God
the more delightful will be chr labors
TO keep those lava,
Never borrow troable. OF conrse
not. There is always somebody that
will give yon All yon want.
One sin entertained fetcheB 10 an
other; and II il be forced TO lodge
alone, either departesh or dieth.
It's 5 bad indication n we ara more
vsxed and troubled aboat The aims Of
Our neighboFs than Of our own aims.
EYen spiritual blessings we may ask
and receive not, II we only ask that
Wemay consume them upon our selves.
To the loYero truth truth isalWays
valuable, though spoken byaa poor
speaker Or written By 40 unpublished
pen.
We should use the means Of grace,
ID ahongh we could do everything
and trust IN God, a. though We could
do nothing.
Unless we live to make mankind,
beginning with oHr nearest relatives,
wiser, better and happier, we live to
20 good purpose.
DR. Timothy Dwight says: "YiF-
tue is voluntary obedience to tFnth1--
better definition IL, Virtue Is atfeo.
fionate obedience to truth.
a wise self discipline in the mataF-
est is not SO easy or SO common that
We may reasonably expect the Young
to be exemplary in that respect.
We-shall never make any trRe pro |
gress Of growth in grace unless we are
sick Of onF sinful selves, and the more
sick we are the more rapid will beour
Let others seek for gifts; do yon
pray for graees. Let who will begDeat,
40 You Try I'd submit to the working
Of the good Spirit who makes yon
good.
Those who profess to be friends of
Him who took little children IN his
arms and blessed them, surely ought
10 be very tender friends Of all little
children.
II is great wrong to ourselves, and
blood sin against God, 10 do anything
which onr reason and conscience tell
as we shall be ashamed ofrand sorry
for at future time.
When you have many hard tasks
10 accomplish don'ttry 10 attack them
all at once. Do one at time, quiet
ly and as well as yon can, and With .
little patience you will get through
them sll.
Every man who is q trpe and con
siatent Christian, in consequence Of
the wickedness and sorrow Of the la.
man race, will be much like Christ bis
Savior, "a man Of sorrow andacqnanit-
va with grief."
Do you shink Your children arr
going TO ruin because they make /
racket All healthy children make .
racket. But do not laugh at you
childA Sin because il Is smart. II yov
DO, yon will cry after awhile becanse
it il malicious.
The INNER life ia the only mean
whereby we may oppose q prcftsblt
resistance 70 circumstance. II th.
sailor did mot carry with him bis owl
aempasatnFe, hecould not 90 from th'
pole 10 the equator, and remain him
self ID spite Of all.
IN cemeiery little white stons
marked The grave of adear little girl,
and on the stone wcFe chlseled lhesG
words: Achild III WfOrn her playmatei
said, 1t is easier to be good when abe
mas with us. ] used to think, and
30 now, that 1t was one of the mosi
beautiful epitaphs / ever beard
The common mereies we enjoy all
sing of love, just as the sea-ahell, when
We put II ID our ears, whispers of the
deep sea whence il came; but If We
desire % hear the ocean itself, we must
not look at everyday blessings. but Al
The transaction Of the erucifxion. He
who wonld know love, let him retire
10 Calvary and see the Man of Sorrows
dec a. SpuFgeoe.
I would have Inscribed Oh she eng-
lains 81 your bed and The walls Of your
eianbeE: 4 n you do not rise early you
sar neser make progress ii anything.
Il Jon Do nat SCI apast your hours Of
seaaiAg. i ynu suffer yonrsel Of any
la else ~ break II npDn Them, y0sir
1eSs 9s3l aiip through y0ur bands nm
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